Definition of slant in English:

slant

verb slɑːntslænt

1usually with adverbial of direction Slope or lean in a particular direction; diverge or cause to diverge from the vertical or horizontal.
倾斜；歪斜
no object a ploughed field slanted up to the skyline
一块向地平线倾斜的犁田。
with object slant your skis as you turn
Example sentencesExamples
- We barreled along, past wooden shacks slanting in on themselves, ruins of fishing villages that dated from the days of the czars.
- At work the toilet bowl's rim is angled downwards to the inside - so the outer rim edge is higher than the inner rim edge (i.e. the rim slants into the toilet).
- If you plot the pressure of an enclosed gas on a vertical axis against its temperature on the horizontal scale, you get a straight line slanting upward to the right.
- Follow the narrow path slanting to the left down the hillside to join the walled track of Cam High Road.
- At the mouth the shallow banks of the creek slanted sharply down around a large, flat boulder protruding from the lake, creating a miniature canyon of mud.
- Ahead, unknown to him, the narrow walkway was about to end, slanting diagonally toward the road, funneling the man's steps toward the pavement, the hurtling cars.
- I kept envisioning the streets, the fields that slanted upwards with the little dividing lines of trees running in order to separate properties.
- All I can say is that trying to change a baby who is convinced that changing time is for rolling on a concrete bench which slants in one direction is most definitely a challenge.
- Gentle, rolling hills bring the village slanting towards the waters of Morecambe Bay, where visitors enjoying a pint at one of the village's pubs on a summer evening can watch the remarkable tidal bore rush in.
- It's a page torn from a school notebook, slanting scrawled handwriting on it.
- According to the principles of calligraphy, writing should be upright or slanting to the right.
- Galorea shot off, ducking under the decaying beams that slanted over the wooden shanties.
- Shortly after noon, the valley's pass began to widen slowly, the mountainous sides slanting somewhat away from vertical.
- Why, at the open end, are the vertical edges of the long sides slightly slanted?
- The back of the heel should be vertical - not slanted.
- The foot is not fully pointed-straight up and down, with the toes aiming directly to the floor; it is angled or slanted back, in a beveled position.
- The way they shoot, the bullet will slant at an upward angle, past the armor.
- If it's a grave it slants from bottom left to top right, as grave accents tend to.
- The darkened ceiling slanted down toward the eaves; on it, above the lamp was a pale blurry oval.
- A cold stone passage lay just beyond, pitch black and slanted at a diagonal.
Synonyms
slope, tilt, incline, be at an angle, angle, tip, cant, be askew, skew, lean, dip, pitch, shelve, list, bank, heel
oblique, sloping, at an angle, angled, not straight, on an incline, inclined, tilting, tilted, atilt, slanted, aslant, slantwise, diagonal, canted, cambered, leaning, dipping, shelving, listing
crooked, askew, skew
Scottish squint
North American cater-cornered, catty-cornered, kitty-corner
1. 1.1 (especially of light or shadow) fall in an oblique direction.
  （尤指光或影子）斜投，斜射
  the early sun slanted across the mountains
  初晨的太阳斜照在山上。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Its smallish greens slant and cant at aggravating angles.
  The winter light slanted through the dying trees.
  The rays of the sun slanted through the window and spilled into the room.
  She saw sunlight slanting through the hospital windows, landing on the foot of her bed.
  The same light slanted across her face, illuminating her pale green eyes and making her slightly tanned skin glow.
  Beams of sunlight slanted down, flickering whenever a ripple broke the calm of the surface.
  Light slanted in from the window at the end of the long, rectangular walls, falling across the sneakers hanging on their peg.
  For a photographer, often the best light in which to photograph the Dales is early morning or late afternoon, when the sunlight slants across the hills from the side.
  Sunlight slanted through the windows, illuminating his blond hair, now peppered with gray.
  I want to be in Stockholm, when the cool morning light slants off the roofs of Gamla Stan.
  We neared the end of a forty-hour shift, but the electric forklift in the freezer had broken down, so there we waited, snowflakes slanting through worklights on the masts of both ships.
  As the afternoon sun sank lower, the long beams slanting across the coffee shop floor made me want to curl up and sleep like a lazy cat.
  We sat on our horses, and I watched the huts as the creeping shadows slanted across them.
  It was brighter in there than it'd been the last time I'd visited: Light slanted in through the front windows, sunbeams visible in the smoky air.
  As sunlight slants down on another late afternoon, you are strumming on a guitar, eating shepherd's pie, and sipping rum-laced coffee.
  The sun was a glowing hemisphere, its faint rays slanting across the sea.
  A cold slanting, pummelling rain was hitting the beach as I drove in from Redondo.
  Light slanted through the canopy of trees that sheltered the abandoned field, causing Qiara to shield her face, and squint her eyes up at the sun.
  The sunlight slanted through the trees, casting long shadows across his path.
  It was the rain, you see, slanting down at just the right angle to make the brolly work for its living.
  Synonyms
  sideways, sidewise, sidelong, sideward, edgewise, edgeways, side, flank, wing, indirect, oblique, slanting
2often as adjective slantedwith object Present or view (information) from a particular angle, especially in a biased or unfair way.
（尤指从偏见或不公平角度）提出，看待（信息）
slanted news coverage
带有偏见的新闻报道。
Example sentencesExamples
- The stakes rise as his personal life is sacrificed for the case, and everybody sides with the corporation to slant the case against him.
- And I don't think I'd mind that the paper was slanted if it was well-written.
- Language can be invented, subverted, skewed, and slanted to make it look good, yet say nothing.
- Okay, yes, they'll slant the statistics to suit their arguments, but in the main they are accountable for what they say and any massaging of data will be subtly done.
- Of course, former adversaries have reason to slant their portrayal of matters.
- And they mean to heavily slant the peer review process towards industry-funded scientists.
- I agree that this is ridiculously politically slanted in one direction.
- I don't think his monologues have been slanted and even if they were, so what?
- It also gives conservative scholars ideological license to adjust their methods to produce the desired result - everybody slants their research, whether they admit it or not.
- Other articles to date seem to be slanted one way and give a biased direction.
- As several readers have noted, Coleman no doubt slanted his descriptions of the bar patrons to make them sound ill-informed and bigoted.
- It is probably fair to say that most Big Media outlets, whether owned by a giant corporation, a family, or an individual, occasionally slant coverage to favor their financial interests.
- Even in such a forum, it is often the media's approach that slants coverage against supporters of reparations.
- Do you think the whole record industry is slanted against artists?
- She largely succeeds with the former - although I do think she's wrong to say that if an autobiographer slants her story to fit her own purposes, the enterprise is doomed.
- Blogs aren't supposed to be non-partisan, and there's plenty of ethical questions that arise when someone working for Big Media takes cash in return for slanting their work.
- They will undoubtedly be slanting their results in order to sell their services to you.
- The commission was asked to determine, among other things, whether the administration pressured analysts to slant their intelligence findings.
- He does not quote anyone saying the poll is not slanted.
- When networks run slanted stories that always favor the liberal cause, we serve a worthwhile function by exposing the slant and the consistency of the bias.
Synonyms
bias, distort, twist, skew, colour, weight, spin, angle, orient, give a slant to, give a bias to

noun slɑːntslænt

1in singular A sloping position.
倾斜；歪斜；斜面
the hedge grew at a slant
树篱长得歪斜时斜剪。
cut flower stems on the slant
剪花茎。
Example sentencesExamples
- Bring your knees to your chest, when you get to the other side - while still holding onto the bars - and push yourself up, at a slant.
- The twin long swords, one sword-belt around his waist, the other at a slant to his side, hung comfortably around him, their weight reassuring.
- At their feet, the artist painted a weird shape that turns out to be a grinning skull when you hold the picture at a slant and view it in the right way.
- In contrast, when the plant becomes a creeper, the fibers run more at a slant [see illustration below].
- Some were tilted 90 degrees; some were even at a slant.
- He lays a red shaft at his feet, pointing toward the target, and sticks a purple one in the ground behind him at a slant.
- While unit is still warm enough that syrup has not hardened, scrape off with a single-edge razor blade held at a slant, being careful not to cut fingers or scratch the cooktop.
- She heard a soft knock on her window and saw the silhouette of Chris sitting on the slant outside her window.
- If doubt may arise as to which end of the cutting is the top, cut the top end of each cutting at a slant and cut the bottom horizontally.
- I was dizzy and at a slant that the dusty road put me on.
- With some few exceptions, the Pennsylvania axe generally has a slanted base, sloping towards the back, and complementing the slant at the top of the blade plate.
- ‘We might find some new friends, but I bet they're just like us,’ Steven said as he sat with his legs stretched out together and his arms handing his body up at a slant.
- Many hung close to the ceiling, the floor, or at a slant.
- Recently, Jenkins used two pairs of paintings in a home at a slant where dormer windows met a wall in order to create height in a small space.
- His head rested at a slant, his unseeing eyes staring at the ground.
- Cabinets filled the corners and the ceiling was at a slant, it was obvious to the oblivious that this room was underneath a staircase.
- The world is at a slant in these paintings, askew, all slope.
- Innes' own piece, an abstract work with deep purple and white squares, is not only placed out of view in a private room but has been hung at a slant.
- Fingers on the right hand are behind the ones of the left hand at a slant, thumb tips touching each other.
- Pearson shared his wall with the computer station, plus it was shorter than ours since our front door, the one that led to the living room, was at a slant.
Synonyms
slope, incline, tilt, ramp, gradient, pitch, angle, rake, cant, camber, skew, leaning, inclination, shelving, listing
2A particular point of view from which something is seen or presented.
观点；看法
a new slant on science
对科学的一个新看法。
Example sentencesExamples
- People were trying to look for a negative rather than a positive slant, which is the way they have chosen to go.
- These two books, and the others they have written, are sheer delight as well as deep, repeatedly startling the reader with something unexpected, or coming at something familiar but at a slant.
- Poetry in particular moves at a slant or tangent, taking advantage of the ambiguity of words, the various meanings to be found in them.
Synonyms
point of view, viewpoint, standpoint, stance, angle, perspective, approach, view, opinion, attitude, position, frame of reference
bias, leaning, partiality, prejudice, twist, bent
spin

adjective slɑːntslænt

attributive Sloping.
斜的
slant pockets
斜口袋。
Example sentencesExamples
- A trickle of blood came down the slant side of the podium and dripped off the side.
- The button front skirt, with elastic in the back waist, has two deep slant pockets with security pockets hidden inside.
- Amani Toomer has the speed to break big plays, the size to do damage on slant patterns and the hands to make the spectacular catch.
- The resulting dikaryons were cultured on slant medium to test for fruiting phenotypes.
- One disadvantage of a slant load is for people with large horses.
- This made Mason an easy target for a slant route.
- The passing attack will continue to emphasize slant patterns and crossing routes.
- David Carr's first quarter slant pass to Jabar Gaffney deflected into the hands of Marlon McCree, who returned the interception 35 yards to the Texan.
- His old eyes, brown and lazy, gazed ahead from under a slant brow.
- But on the first play of the fourth quarter, Beuerlein's slant pass to a wide-open Smith was behind him.
- Elapsed time is recorded between the emitted and returning signals, to compute a slant distance.
- In mid to late spring the slant roofs would be taken down again.
- The slant launching method, unlike vertical launch, allows the missile's on-board seeker to be locked on to the target before launch.
- Use it on pants or shorts with a fly-front zipper and side-seam or slant pockets.
- Defenses also often walked out a linebacker to Moss' side of the field to help defend slant routes.
- Similarly noncleavage fracture in thin sheets of engineering materials occurs exclusively by shear rupture and the fracture profile appears similar to the slant fracture.
- Then John drilled me on a slant pattern that put the ball on the eight-yard line.
- Use stay tape on the slant pocket seam edge to prevent it from stretching.
- The fracture surface is a fibrous slant fracture.
Synonyms
at a slant, on the slant, at an angle, not straight, slanting, slanted, slantwise, oblique, leaning, inclining, inclined, angled, cambered, canted

Origin

Late Middle English: variant of dialect slent, of Scandinavian origin, probably influenced by aslant.

Rhymes

aren't, aslant, aunt, can't, chant, courante, détente, enchant, entente, grant, implant, Nantes, plant, shan't, supplant, transplant, underplant

Definition of slant in US English:

slant

verbslantslænt

1Slope or lean in a particular direction; diverge or cause to diverge from the vertical or horizontal.
倾斜；歪斜
no object a plowed field slanted up to the skyline
一块向地平线倾斜的犁田。
with object slant your skis as you turn to send up a curtain of water
当你转弯形成水幕时，将滑水橇倾斜。
Example sentencesExamples
- Follow the narrow path slanting to the left down the hillside to join the walled track of Cam High Road.
- If it's a grave it slants from bottom left to top right, as grave accents tend to.
- The darkened ceiling slanted down toward the eaves; on it, above the lamp was a pale blurry oval.
- It's a page torn from a school notebook, slanting scrawled handwriting on it.
- According to the principles of calligraphy, writing should be upright or slanting to the right.
- The foot is not fully pointed-straight up and down, with the toes aiming directly to the floor; it is angled or slanted back, in a beveled position.
- A cold stone passage lay just beyond, pitch black and slanted at a diagonal.
- Why, at the open end, are the vertical edges of the long sides slightly slanted?
- I kept envisioning the streets, the fields that slanted upwards with the little dividing lines of trees running in order to separate properties.
- Galorea shot off, ducking under the decaying beams that slanted over the wooden shanties.
- The way they shoot, the bullet will slant at an upward angle, past the armor.
- The back of the heel should be vertical - not slanted.
- At work the toilet bowl's rim is angled downwards to the inside - so the outer rim edge is higher than the inner rim edge (i.e. the rim slants into the toilet).
- If you plot the pressure of an enclosed gas on a vertical axis against its temperature on the horizontal scale, you get a straight line slanting upward to the right.
- We barreled along, past wooden shacks slanting in on themselves, ruins of fishing villages that dated from the days of the czars.
- All I can say is that trying to change a baby who is convinced that changing time is for rolling on a concrete bench which slants in one direction is most definitely a challenge.
- Gentle, rolling hills bring the village slanting towards the waters of Morecambe Bay, where visitors enjoying a pint at one of the village's pubs on a summer evening can watch the remarkable tidal bore rush in.
- At the mouth the shallow banks of the creek slanted sharply down around a large, flat boulder protruding from the lake, creating a miniature canyon of mud.
- Ahead, unknown to him, the narrow walkway was about to end, slanting diagonally toward the road, funneling the man's steps toward the pavement, the hurtling cars.
- Shortly after noon, the valley's pass began to widen slowly, the mountainous sides slanting somewhat away from vertical.
Synonyms
slope, tilt, incline, be at an angle, angle, tip, cant, be askew, skew, lean, dip, pitch, shelve, list, bank, heel
oblique, sloping, at an angle, angled, not straight, on an incline, inclined, tilting, tilted, atilt, slanted, aslant, slantwise, diagonal, canted, cambered, leaning, dipping, shelving, listing
1. 1.1 (especially of light or shadow) fall in an oblique direction.
  （尤指光或影子）斜投，斜射
  the early sun slanted across the mountains
  初晨的太阳斜照在山上。
  Example sentencesExamples
  We neared the end of a forty-hour shift, but the electric forklift in the freezer had broken down, so there we waited, snowflakes slanting through worklights on the masts of both ships.
  As the afternoon sun sank lower, the long beams slanting across the coffee shop floor made me want to curl up and sleep like a lazy cat.
  We sat on our horses, and I watched the huts as the creeping shadows slanted across them.
  Light slanted in from the window at the end of the long, rectangular walls, falling across the sneakers hanging on their peg.
  The same light slanted across her face, illuminating her pale green eyes and making her slightly tanned skin glow.
  She saw sunlight slanting through the hospital windows, landing on the foot of her bed.
  The rays of the sun slanted through the window and spilled into the room.
  Beams of sunlight slanted down, flickering whenever a ripple broke the calm of the surface.
  For a photographer, often the best light in which to photograph the Dales is early morning or late afternoon, when the sunlight slants across the hills from the side.
  The winter light slanted through the dying trees.
  Its smallish greens slant and cant at aggravating angles.
  It was the rain, you see, slanting down at just the right angle to make the brolly work for its living.
  A cold slanting, pummelling rain was hitting the beach as I drove in from Redondo.
  As sunlight slants down on another late afternoon, you are strumming on a guitar, eating shepherd's pie, and sipping rum-laced coffee.
  The sun was a glowing hemisphere, its faint rays slanting across the sea.
  Light slanted through the canopy of trees that sheltered the abandoned field, causing Qiara to shield her face, and squint her eyes up at the sun.
  Sunlight slanted through the windows, illuminating his blond hair, now peppered with gray.
  The sunlight slanted through the trees, casting long shadows across his path.
  It was brighter in there than it'd been the last time I'd visited: Light slanted in through the front windows, sunbeams visible in the smoky air.
  I want to be in Stockholm, when the cool morning light slants off the roofs of Gamla Stan.
  Synonyms
  sideways, sidewise, sidelong, sideward, edgewise, edgeways, side, flank, wing, indirect, oblique, slanting
2. 1.2often as adjective slantedwith object Present or view (information) from a particular angle, especially in a biased or unfair way.
  （尤指从偏见或不公平角度）提出，看待（信息）
  slanted news coverage
  带有偏见的新闻报道。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Of course, former adversaries have reason to slant their portrayal of matters.
  The stakes rise as his personal life is sacrificed for the case, and everybody sides with the corporation to slant the case against him.
  And they mean to heavily slant the peer review process towards industry-funded scientists.
  Even in such a forum, it is often the media's approach that slants coverage against supporters of reparations.
  He does not quote anyone saying the poll is not slanted.
  Language can be invented, subverted, skewed, and slanted to make it look good, yet say nothing.
  It is probably fair to say that most Big Media outlets, whether owned by a giant corporation, a family, or an individual, occasionally slant coverage to favor their financial interests.
  I agree that this is ridiculously politically slanted in one direction.
  And I don't think I'd mind that the paper was slanted if it was well-written.
  Blogs aren't supposed to be non-partisan, and there's plenty of ethical questions that arise when someone working for Big Media takes cash in return for slanting their work.
  They will undoubtedly be slanting their results in order to sell their services to you.
  Okay, yes, they'll slant the statistics to suit their arguments, but in the main they are accountable for what they say and any massaging of data will be subtly done.
  As several readers have noted, Coleman no doubt slanted his descriptions of the bar patrons to make them sound ill-informed and bigoted.
  When networks run slanted stories that always favor the liberal cause, we serve a worthwhile function by exposing the slant and the consistency of the bias.
  Do you think the whole record industry is slanted against artists?
  The commission was asked to determine, among other things, whether the administration pressured analysts to slant their intelligence findings.
  I don't think his monologues have been slanted and even if they were, so what?
  Other articles to date seem to be slanted one way and give a biased direction.
  She largely succeeds with the former - although I do think she's wrong to say that if an autobiographer slants her story to fit her own purposes, the enterprise is doomed.
  It also gives conservative scholars ideological license to adjust their methods to produce the desired result - everybody slants their research, whether they admit it or not.
  Synonyms
  bias, distort, twist, skew, colour, weight, spin, angle, orient, give a slant to, give a bias to

nounslantslænt

1in singular A sloping position.
倾斜；歪斜；斜面
the hedge grew at a slant
树篱长得歪斜时斜剪。
cut flower stems on the slant
剪花茎。
Example sentencesExamples
- In contrast, when the plant becomes a creeper, the fibers run more at a slant [see illustration below].
- At their feet, the artist painted a weird shape that turns out to be a grinning skull when you hold the picture at a slant and view it in the right way.
- Bring your knees to your chest, when you get to the other side - while still holding onto the bars - and push yourself up, at a slant.
- The twin long swords, one sword-belt around his waist, the other at a slant to his side, hung comfortably around him, their weight reassuring.
- Fingers on the right hand are behind the ones of the left hand at a slant, thumb tips touching each other.
- While unit is still warm enough that syrup has not hardened, scrape off with a single-edge razor blade held at a slant, being careful not to cut fingers or scratch the cooktop.
- ‘We might find some new friends, but I bet they're just like us,’ Steven said as he sat with his legs stretched out together and his arms handing his body up at a slant.
- Cabinets filled the corners and the ceiling was at a slant, it was obvious to the oblivious that this room was underneath a staircase.
- With some few exceptions, the Pennsylvania axe generally has a slanted base, sloping towards the back, and complementing the slant at the top of the blade plate.
- Some were tilted 90 degrees; some were even at a slant.
- I was dizzy and at a slant that the dusty road put me on.
- Innes' own piece, an abstract work with deep purple and white squares, is not only placed out of view in a private room but has been hung at a slant.
- He lays a red shaft at his feet, pointing toward the target, and sticks a purple one in the ground behind him at a slant.
- His head rested at a slant, his unseeing eyes staring at the ground.
- If doubt may arise as to which end of the cutting is the top, cut the top end of each cutting at a slant and cut the bottom horizontally.
- Many hung close to the ceiling, the floor, or at a slant.
- Pearson shared his wall with the computer station, plus it was shorter than ours since our front door, the one that led to the living room, was at a slant.
- Recently, Jenkins used two pairs of paintings in a home at a slant where dormer windows met a wall in order to create height in a small space.
- The world is at a slant in these paintings, askew, all slope.
- She heard a soft knock on her window and saw the silhouette of Chris sitting on the slant outside her window.
Synonyms
slope, incline, tilt, ramp, gradient, pitch, angle, rake, cant, camber, skew, leaning, inclination, shelving, listing
2A particular point of view from which something is seen or presented.
观点；看法
a new slant on science
对科学的一个新看法。
Example sentencesExamples
- These two books, and the others they have written, are sheer delight as well as deep, repeatedly startling the reader with something unexpected, or coming at something familiar but at a slant.
- Poetry in particular moves at a slant or tangent, taking advantage of the ambiguity of words, the various meanings to be found in them.
- People were trying to look for a negative rather than a positive slant, which is the way they have chosen to go.
Synonyms
point of view, viewpoint, standpoint, stance, angle, perspective, approach, view, opinion, attitude, position, frame of reference

adjectiveslantslænt

attributive Sloping.
斜的
slant pockets
斜口袋。
Example sentencesExamples
- Elapsed time is recorded between the emitted and returning signals, to compute a slant distance.
- One disadvantage of a slant load is for people with large horses.
- Use stay tape on the slant pocket seam edge to prevent it from stretching.
- Amani Toomer has the speed to break big plays, the size to do damage on slant patterns and the hands to make the spectacular catch.
- This made Mason an easy target for a slant route.
- Defenses also often walked out a linebacker to Moss' side of the field to help defend slant routes.
- His old eyes, brown and lazy, gazed ahead from under a slant brow.
- Similarly noncleavage fracture in thin sheets of engineering materials occurs exclusively by shear rupture and the fracture profile appears similar to the slant fracture.
- Then John drilled me on a slant pattern that put the ball on the eight-yard line.
- The passing attack will continue to emphasize slant patterns and crossing routes.
- Use it on pants or shorts with a fly-front zipper and side-seam or slant pockets.
- A trickle of blood came down the slant side of the podium and dripped off the side.
- David Carr's first quarter slant pass to Jabar Gaffney deflected into the hands of Marlon McCree, who returned the interception 35 yards to the Texan.
- The resulting dikaryons were cultured on slant medium to test for fruiting phenotypes.
- The slant launching method, unlike vertical launch, allows the missile's on-board seeker to be locked on to the target before launch.
- But on the first play of the fourth quarter, Beuerlein's slant pass to a wide-open Smith was behind him.
- The button front skirt, with elastic in the back waist, has two deep slant pockets with security pockets hidden inside.
- The fracture surface is a fibrous slant fracture.
- In mid to late spring the slant roofs would be taken down again.
Synonyms
at a slant, on the slant, at an angle, not straight, slanting, slanted, slantwise, oblique, leaning, inclining, inclined, angled, cambered, canted

Origin

Late Middle English: variant of dialect slent, of Scandinavian origin, probably influenced by aslant.

单词	slant
释义	Definition of slant in English: slant verb slɑːntslænt 1usually with adverbial of direction Slope or lean in a particular direction; diverge or cause to diverge from the vertical or horizontal. 倾斜；歪斜 no object a ploughed field slanted up to the skyline 一块向地平线倾斜的犁田。 with object slant your skis as you turn Example sentencesExamples We barreled along, past wooden shacks slanting in on themselves, ruins of fishing villages that dated from the days of the czars. At work the toilet bowl's rim is angled downwards to the inside - so the outer rim edge is higher than the inner rim edge (i.e. the rim slants into the toilet). If you plot the pressure of an enclosed gas on a vertical axis against its temperature on the horizontal scale, you get a straight line slanting upward to the right. Follow the narrow path slanting to the left down the hillside to join the walled track of Cam High Road. At the mouth the shallow banks of the creek slanted sharply down around a large, flat boulder protruding from the lake, creating a miniature canyon of mud. Ahead, unknown to him, the narrow walkway was about to end, slanting diagonally toward the road, funneling the man's steps toward the pavement, the hurtling cars. I kept envisioning the streets, the fields that slanted upwards with the little dividing lines of trees running in order to separate properties. All I can say is that trying to change a baby who is convinced that changing time is for rolling on a concrete bench which slants in one direction is most definitely a challenge. Gentle, rolling hills bring the village slanting towards the waters of Morecambe Bay, where visitors enjoying a pint at one of the village's pubs on a summer evening can watch the remarkable tidal bore rush in. It's a page torn from a school notebook, slanting scrawled handwriting on it. According to the principles of calligraphy, writing should be upright or slanting to the right. Galorea shot off, ducking under the decaying beams that slanted over the wooden shanties. Shortly after noon, the valley's pass began to widen slowly, the mountainous sides slanting somewhat away from vertical. Why, at the open end, are the vertical edges of the long sides slightly slanted? The back of the heel should be vertical - not slanted. The foot is not fully pointed-straight up and down, with the toes aiming directly to the floor; it is angled or slanted back, in a beveled position. The way they shoot, the bullet will slant at an upward angle, past the armor. If it's a grave it slants from bottom left to top right, as grave accents tend to. The darkened ceiling slanted down toward the eaves; on it, above the lamp was a pale blurry oval. A cold stone passage lay just beyond, pitch black and slanted at a diagonal. Synonyms slope, tilt, incline, be at an angle, angle, tip, cant, be askew, skew, lean, dip, pitch, shelve, list, bank, heel oblique, sloping, at an angle, angled, not straight, on an incline, inclined, tilting, tilted, atilt, slanted, aslant, slantwise, diagonal, canted, cambered, leaning, dipping, shelving, listing crooked, askew, skew Scottish squint North American cater-cornered, catty-cornered, kitty-corner 1.1 (especially of light or shadow) fall in an oblique direction. （尤指光或影子）斜投，斜射 the early sun slanted across the mountains 初晨的太阳斜照在山上。 Example sentencesExamples Its smallish greens slant and cant at aggravating angles. The winter light slanted through the dying trees. The rays of the sun slanted through the window and spilled into the room. She saw sunlight slanting through the hospital windows, landing on the foot of her bed. The same light slanted across her face, illuminating her pale green eyes and making her slightly tanned skin glow. Beams of sunlight slanted down, flickering whenever a ripple broke the calm of the surface. Light slanted in from the window at the end of the long, rectangular walls, falling across the sneakers hanging on their peg. For a photographer, often the best light in which to photograph the Dales is early morning or late afternoon, when the sunlight slants across the hills from the side. Sunlight slanted through the windows, illuminating his blond hair, now peppered with gray. I want to be in Stockholm, when the cool morning light slants off the roofs of Gamla Stan. We neared the end of a forty-hour shift, but the electric forklift in the freezer had broken down, so there we waited, snowflakes slanting through worklights on the masts of both ships. As the afternoon sun sank lower, the long beams slanting across the coffee shop floor made me want to curl up and sleep like a lazy cat. We sat on our horses, and I watched the huts as the creeping shadows slanted across them. It was brighter in there than it'd been the last time I'd visited: Light slanted in through the front windows, sunbeams visible in the smoky air. As sunlight slants down on another late afternoon, you are strumming on a guitar, eating shepherd's pie, and sipping rum-laced coffee. The sun was a glowing hemisphere, its faint rays slanting across the sea. A cold slanting, pummelling rain was hitting the beach as I drove in from Redondo. Light slanted through the canopy of trees that sheltered the abandoned field, causing Qiara to shield her face, and squint her eyes up at the sun. The sunlight slanted through the trees, casting long shadows across his path. It was the rain, you see, slanting down at just the right angle to make the brolly work for its living. Synonyms sideways, sidewise, sidelong, sideward, edgewise, edgeways, side, flank, wing, indirect, oblique, slanting 2often as adjective slantedwith object Present or view (information) from a particular angle, especially in a biased or unfair way. （尤指从偏见或不公平角度）提出，看待（信息） slanted news coverage 带有偏见的新闻报道。 Example sentencesExamples The stakes rise as his personal life is sacrificed for the case, and everybody sides with the corporation to slant the case against him. And I don't think I'd mind that the paper was slanted if it was well-written. Language can be invented, subverted, skewed, and slanted to make it look good, yet say nothing. Okay, yes, they'll slant the statistics to suit their arguments, but in the main they are accountable for what they say and any massaging of data will be subtly done. Of course, former adversaries have reason to slant their portrayal of matters. And they mean to heavily slant the peer review process towards industry-funded scientists. I agree that this is ridiculously politically slanted in one direction. I don't think his monologues have been slanted and even if they were, so what? It also gives conservative scholars ideological license to adjust their methods to produce the desired result - everybody slants their research, whether they admit it or not. Other articles to date seem to be slanted one way and give a biased direction. As several readers have noted, Coleman no doubt slanted his descriptions of the bar patrons to make them sound ill-informed and bigoted. It is probably fair to say that most Big Media outlets, whether owned by a giant corporation, a family, or an individual, occasionally slant coverage to favor their financial interests. Even in such a forum, it is often the media's approach that slants coverage against supporters of reparations. Do you think the whole record industry is slanted against artists? She largely succeeds with the former - although I do think she's wrong to say that if an autobiographer slants her story to fit her own purposes, the enterprise is doomed. Blogs aren't supposed to be non-partisan, and there's plenty of ethical questions that arise when someone working for Big Media takes cash in return for slanting their work. They will undoubtedly be slanting their results in order to sell their services to you. The commission was asked to determine, among other things, whether the administration pressured analysts to slant their intelligence findings. He does not quote anyone saying the poll is not slanted. When networks run slanted stories that always favor the liberal cause, we serve a worthwhile function by exposing the slant and the consistency of the bias. Synonyms bias, distort, twist, skew, colour, weight, spin, angle, orient, give a slant to, give a bias to noun slɑːntslænt 1in singular A sloping position. 倾斜；歪斜；斜面 the hedge grew at a slant 树篱长得歪斜时斜剪。 cut flower stems on the slant 剪花茎。 Example sentencesExamples Bring your knees to your chest, when you get to the other side - while still holding onto the bars - and push yourself up, at a slant. The twin long swords, one sword-belt around his waist, the other at a slant to his side, hung comfortably around him, their weight reassuring. At their feet, the artist painted a weird shape that turns out to be a grinning skull when you hold the picture at a slant and view it in the right way. In contrast, when the plant becomes a creeper, the fibers run more at a slant [see illustration below]. Some were tilted 90 degrees; some were even at a slant. He lays a red shaft at his feet, pointing toward the target, and sticks a purple one in the ground behind him at a slant. While unit is still warm enough that syrup has not hardened, scrape off with a single-edge razor blade held at a slant, being careful not to cut fingers or scratch the cooktop. She heard a soft knock on her window and saw the silhouette of Chris sitting on the slant outside her window. If doubt may arise as to which end of the cutting is the top, cut the top end of each cutting at a slant and cut the bottom horizontally. I was dizzy and at a slant that the dusty road put me on. With some few exceptions, the Pennsylvania axe generally has a slanted base, sloping towards the back, and complementing the slant at the top of the blade plate. ‘We might find some new friends, but I bet they're just like us,’ Steven said as he sat with his legs stretched out together and his arms handing his body up at a slant. Many hung close to the ceiling, the floor, or at a slant. Recently, Jenkins used two pairs of paintings in a home at a slant where dormer windows met a wall in order to create height in a small space. His head rested at a slant, his unseeing eyes staring at the ground. Cabinets filled the corners and the ceiling was at a slant, it was obvious to the oblivious that this room was underneath a staircase. The world is at a slant in these paintings, askew, all slope. Innes' own piece, an abstract work with deep purple and white squares, is not only placed out of view in a private room but has been hung at a slant. Fingers on the right hand are behind the ones of the left hand at a slant, thumb tips touching each other. Pearson shared his wall with the computer station, plus it was shorter than ours since our front door, the one that led to the living room, was at a slant. Synonyms slope, incline, tilt, ramp, gradient, pitch, angle, rake, cant, camber, skew, leaning, inclination, shelving, listing 2A particular point of view from which something is seen or presented. 观点；看法 a new slant on science 对科学的一个新看法。 Example sentencesExamples People were trying to look for a negative rather than a positive slant, which is the way they have chosen to go. These two books, and the others they have written, are sheer delight as well as deep, repeatedly startling the reader with something unexpected, or coming at something familiar but at a slant. Poetry in particular moves at a slant or tangent, taking advantage of the ambiguity of words, the various meanings to be found in them. Synonyms point of view, viewpoint, standpoint, stance, angle, perspective, approach, view, opinion, attitude, position, frame of reference bias, leaning, partiality, prejudice, twist, bent spin adjective slɑːntslænt attributive Sloping. 斜的 slant pockets 斜口袋。 Example sentencesExamples A trickle of blood came down the slant side of the podium and dripped off the side. The button front skirt, with elastic in the back waist, has two deep slant pockets with security pockets hidden inside. Amani Toomer has the speed to break big plays, the size to do damage on slant patterns and the hands to make the spectacular catch. The resulting dikaryons were cultured on slant medium to test for fruiting phenotypes. One disadvantage of a slant load is for people with large horses. This made Mason an easy target for a slant route. The passing attack will continue to emphasize slant patterns and crossing routes. David Carr's first quarter slant pass to Jabar Gaffney deflected into the hands of Marlon McCree, who returned the interception 35 yards to the Texan. His old eyes, brown and lazy, gazed ahead from under a slant brow. But on the first play of the fourth quarter, Beuerlein's slant pass to a wide-open Smith was behind him. Elapsed time is recorded between the emitted and returning signals, to compute a slant distance. In mid to late spring the slant roofs would be taken down again. The slant launching method, unlike vertical launch, allows the missile's on-board seeker to be locked on to the target before launch. Use it on pants or shorts with a fly-front zipper and side-seam or slant pockets. Defenses also often walked out a linebacker to Moss' side of the field to help defend slant routes. Similarly noncleavage fracture in thin sheets of engineering materials occurs exclusively by shear rupture and the fracture profile appears similar to the slant fracture. Then John drilled me on a slant pattern that put the ball on the eight-yard line. Use stay tape on the slant pocket seam edge to prevent it from stretching. The fracture surface is a fibrous slant fracture. Synonyms at a slant, on the slant, at an angle, not straight, slanting, slanted, slantwise, oblique, leaning, inclining, inclined, angled, cambered, canted Origin Late Middle English: variant of dialect slent, of Scandinavian origin, probably influenced by aslant. Rhymes aren't, aslant, aunt, can't, chant, courante, détente, enchant, entente, grant, implant, Nantes, plant, shan't, supplant, transplant, underplant Definition of slant in US English: slant verbslantslænt 1Slope or lean in a particular direction; diverge or cause to diverge from the vertical or horizontal. 倾斜；歪斜 no object a plowed field slanted up to the skyline 一块向地平线倾斜的犁田。 with object slant your skis as you turn to send up a curtain of water 当你转弯形成水幕时，将滑水橇倾斜。 Example sentencesExamples Follow the narrow path slanting to the left down the hillside to join the walled track of Cam High Road. If it's a grave it slants from bottom left to top right, as grave accents tend to. The darkened ceiling slanted down toward the eaves; on it, above the lamp was a pale blurry oval. It's a page torn from a school notebook, slanting scrawled handwriting on it. According to the principles of calligraphy, writing should be upright or slanting to the right. The foot is not fully pointed-straight up and down, with the toes aiming directly to the floor; it is angled or slanted back, in a beveled position. A cold stone passage lay just beyond, pitch black and slanted at a diagonal. Why, at the open end, are the vertical edges of the long sides slightly slanted? I kept envisioning the streets, the fields that slanted upwards with the little dividing lines of trees running in order to separate properties. Galorea shot off, ducking under the decaying beams that slanted over the wooden shanties. The way they shoot, the bullet will slant at an upward angle, past the armor. The back of the heel should be vertical - not slanted. At work the toilet bowl's rim is angled downwards to the inside - so the outer rim edge is higher than the inner rim edge (i.e. the rim slants into the toilet). If you plot the pressure of an enclosed gas on a vertical axis against its temperature on the horizontal scale, you get a straight line slanting upward to the right. We barreled along, past wooden shacks slanting in on themselves, ruins of fishing villages that dated from the days of the czars. All I can say is that trying to change a baby who is convinced that changing time is for rolling on a concrete bench which slants in one direction is most definitely a challenge. Gentle, rolling hills bring the village slanting towards the waters of Morecambe Bay, where visitors enjoying a pint at one of the village's pubs on a summer evening can watch the remarkable tidal bore rush in. At the mouth the shallow banks of the creek slanted sharply down around a large, flat boulder protruding from the lake, creating a miniature canyon of mud. Ahead, unknown to him, the narrow walkway was about to end, slanting diagonally toward the road, funneling the man's steps toward the pavement, the hurtling cars. Shortly after noon, the valley's pass began to widen slowly, the mountainous sides slanting somewhat away from vertical. Synonyms slope, tilt, incline, be at an angle, angle, tip, cant, be askew, skew, lean, dip, pitch, shelve, list, bank, heel oblique, sloping, at an angle, angled, not straight, on an incline, inclined, tilting, tilted, atilt, slanted, aslant, slantwise, diagonal, canted, cambered, leaning, dipping, shelving, listing 1.1 (especially of light or shadow) fall in an oblique direction. （尤指光或影子）斜投，斜射 the early sun slanted across the mountains 初晨的太阳斜照在山上。 Example sentencesExamples We neared the end of a forty-hour shift, but the electric forklift in the freezer had broken down, so there we waited, snowflakes slanting through worklights on the masts of both ships. As the afternoon sun sank lower, the long beams slanting across the coffee shop floor made me want to curl up and sleep like a lazy cat. We sat on our horses, and I watched the huts as the creeping shadows slanted across them. Light slanted in from the window at the end of the long, rectangular walls, falling across the sneakers hanging on their peg. The same light slanted across her face, illuminating her pale green eyes and making her slightly tanned skin glow. She saw sunlight slanting through the hospital windows, landing on the foot of her bed. The rays of the sun slanted through the window and spilled into the room. Beams of sunlight slanted down, flickering whenever a ripple broke the calm of the surface. For a photographer, often the best light in which to photograph the Dales is early morning or late afternoon, when the sunlight slants across the hills from the side. The winter light slanted through the dying trees. Its smallish greens slant and cant at aggravating angles. It was the rain, you see, slanting down at just the right angle to make the brolly work for its living. A cold slanting, pummelling rain was hitting the beach as I drove in from Redondo. As sunlight slants down on another late afternoon, you are strumming on a guitar, eating shepherd's pie, and sipping rum-laced coffee. The sun was a glowing hemisphere, its faint rays slanting across the sea. Light slanted through the canopy of trees that sheltered the abandoned field, causing Qiara to shield her face, and squint her eyes up at the sun. Sunlight slanted through the windows, illuminating his blond hair, now peppered with gray. The sunlight slanted through the trees, casting long shadows across his path. It was brighter in there than it'd been the last time I'd visited: Light slanted in through the front windows, sunbeams visible in the smoky air. I want to be in Stockholm, when the cool morning light slants off the roofs of Gamla Stan. Synonyms sideways, sidewise, sidelong, sideward, edgewise, edgeways, side, flank, wing, indirect, oblique, slanting 1.2often as adjective slantedwith object Present or view (information) from a particular angle, especially in a biased or unfair way. （尤指从偏见或不公平角度）提出，看待（信息） slanted news coverage 带有偏见的新闻报道。 Example sentencesExamples Of course, former adversaries have reason to slant their portrayal of matters. The stakes rise as his personal life is sacrificed for the case, and everybody sides with the corporation to slant the case against him. And they mean to heavily slant the peer review process towards industry-funded scientists. Even in such a forum, it is often the media's approach that slants coverage against supporters of reparations. He does not quote anyone saying the poll is not slanted. Language can be invented, subverted, skewed, and slanted to make it look good, yet say nothing. It is probably fair to say that most Big Media outlets, whether owned by a giant corporation, a family, or an individual, occasionally slant coverage to favor their financial interests. I agree that this is ridiculously politically slanted in one direction. And I don't think I'd mind that the paper was slanted if it was well-written. Blogs aren't supposed to be non-partisan, and there's plenty of ethical questions that arise when someone working for Big Media takes cash in return for slanting their work. They will undoubtedly be slanting their results in order to sell their services to you. Okay, yes, they'll slant the statistics to suit their arguments, but in the main they are accountable for what they say and any massaging of data will be subtly done. As several readers have noted, Coleman no doubt slanted his descriptions of the bar patrons to make them sound ill-informed and bigoted. When networks run slanted stories that always favor the liberal cause, we serve a worthwhile function by exposing the slant and the consistency of the bias. Do you think the whole record industry is slanted against artists? The commission was asked to determine, among other things, whether the administration pressured analysts to slant their intelligence findings. I don't think his monologues have been slanted and even if they were, so what? Other articles to date seem to be slanted one way and give a biased direction. She largely succeeds with the former - although I do think she's wrong to say that if an autobiographer slants her story to fit her own purposes, the enterprise is doomed. It also gives conservative scholars ideological license to adjust their methods to produce the desired result - everybody slants their research, whether they admit it or not. Synonyms bias, distort, twist, skew, colour, weight, spin, angle, orient, give a slant to, give a bias to nounslantslænt 1in singular A sloping position. 倾斜；歪斜；斜面 the hedge grew at a slant 树篱长得歪斜时斜剪。 cut flower stems on the slant 剪花茎。 Example sentencesExamples In contrast, when the plant becomes a creeper, the fibers run more at a slant [see illustration below]. At their feet, the artist painted a weird shape that turns out to be a grinning skull when you hold the picture at a slant and view it in the right way. Bring your knees to your chest, when you get to the other side - while still holding onto the bars - and push yourself up, at a slant. The twin long swords, one sword-belt around his waist, the other at a slant to his side, hung comfortably around him, their weight reassuring. Fingers on the right hand are behind the ones of the left hand at a slant, thumb tips touching each other. While unit is still warm enough that syrup has not hardened, scrape off with a single-edge razor blade held at a slant, being careful not to cut fingers or scratch the cooktop. ‘We might find some new friends, but I bet they're just like us,’ Steven said as he sat with his legs stretched out together and his arms handing his body up at a slant. Cabinets filled the corners and the ceiling was at a slant, it was obvious to the oblivious that this room was underneath a staircase. With some few exceptions, the Pennsylvania axe generally has a slanted base, sloping towards the back, and complementing the slant at the top of the blade plate. Some were tilted 90 degrees; some were even at a slant. I was dizzy and at a slant that the dusty road put me on. Innes' own piece, an abstract work with deep purple and white squares, is not only placed out of view in a private room but has been hung at a slant. He lays a red shaft at his feet, pointing toward the target, and sticks a purple one in the ground behind him at a slant. His head rested at a slant, his unseeing eyes staring at the ground. If doubt may arise as to which end of the cutting is the top, cut the top end of each cutting at a slant and cut the bottom horizontally. Many hung close to the ceiling, the floor, or at a slant. Pearson shared his wall with the computer station, plus it was shorter than ours since our front door, the one that led to the living room, was at a slant. Recently, Jenkins used two pairs of paintings in a home at a slant where dormer windows met a wall in order to create height in a small space. The world is at a slant in these paintings, askew, all slope. She heard a soft knock on her window and saw the silhouette of Chris sitting on the slant outside her window. Synonyms slope, incline, tilt, ramp, gradient, pitch, angle, rake, cant, camber, skew, leaning, inclination, shelving, listing 2A particular point of view from which something is seen or presented. 观点；看法 a new slant on science 对科学的一个新看法。 Example sentencesExamples These two books, and the others they have written, are sheer delight as well as deep, repeatedly startling the reader with something unexpected, or coming at something familiar but at a slant. Poetry in particular moves at a slant or tangent, taking advantage of the ambiguity of words, the various meanings to be found in them. People were trying to look for a negative rather than a positive slant, which is the way they have chosen to go. Synonyms point of view, viewpoint, standpoint, stance, angle, perspective, approach, view, opinion, attitude, position, frame of reference adjectiveslantslænt attributive Sloping. 斜的 slant pockets 斜口袋。 Example sentencesExamples Elapsed time is recorded between the emitted and returning signals, to compute a slant distance. One disadvantage of a slant load is for people with large horses. Use stay tape on the slant pocket seam edge to prevent it from stretching. Amani Toomer has the speed to break big plays, the size to do damage on slant patterns and the hands to make the spectacular catch. This made Mason an easy target for a slant route. Defenses also often walked out a linebacker to Moss' side of the field to help defend slant routes. His old eyes, brown and lazy, gazed ahead from under a slant brow. Similarly noncleavage fracture in thin sheets of engineering materials occurs exclusively by shear rupture and the fracture profile appears similar to the slant fracture. Then John drilled me on a slant pattern that put the ball on the eight-yard line. The passing attack will continue to emphasize slant patterns and crossing routes. Use it on pants or shorts with a fly-front zipper and side-seam or slant pockets. A trickle of blood came down the slant side of the podium and dripped off the side. David Carr's first quarter slant pass to Jabar Gaffney deflected into the hands of Marlon McCree, who returned the interception 35 yards to the Texan. The resulting dikaryons were cultured on slant medium to test for fruiting phenotypes. The slant launching method, unlike vertical launch, allows the missile's on-board seeker to be locked on to the target before launch. But on the first play of the fourth quarter, Beuerlein's slant pass to a wide-open Smith was behind him. The button front skirt, with elastic in the back waist, has two deep slant pockets with security pockets hidden inside. The fracture surface is a fibrous slant fracture. In mid to late spring the slant roofs would be taken down again. Synonyms at a slant, on the slant, at an angle, not straight, slanting, slanted, slantwise, oblique, leaning, inclining, inclined, angled, cambered, canted Origin Late Middle English: variant of dialect slent, of Scandinavian origin, probably influenced by aslant.
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